by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Second-guessing our people is a management habit that’s likely costing our economy $billions per year.” A recent event brought into focus the tremendous…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Blue Ocean Strategy challenges companies to break out of bloody competition – Red Ocean - by creating uncontested market space that makes competitors…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Conventional managers: Light fires under people….whereas…Enlightened leaders: Light fires within people.” These are just some of the…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Good leaders never stop learning.” Gerard Seijts, Ivey Business Journal, July/August 2013. Our conventional management (CM) culture is fraught by…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Companies frankly admitted that if the appraisal interview was done at all, it was usually quite ineffective…In many instances the situation seemed to…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “A leader…is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “There’s no other way to say it,” said Sean McVay, LA Rams Coach, after Superbowl LIII.”I got out-coached tonight.” New York Times, February…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Opportunity is one of the great sources of innovation.” Have you ever thought about how many decisions you haven’t made owing to…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Feel the market; don’t go by meaningless numbers,” was President Trump’s December 2018 reported refrain to the Federal Reserve Committee as it considered…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “People generally enjoy working in pairs or teams: other people’s enthusiasm can be contagious.” Ever since the industrial revolution and the…
